Professional athletes are, in the most liberal sense, employees who do a job. Beyond this very generic description, however, it's a disingenuous exercise to try and draw any comparisons to how the average person makes a living...

We all know that professional athletes have got the moves on their respective fields of play—at least most of them do! Why else would they be professional athletes? But that doesn't mean they're great at everything...

Normally speaking in sweeping generalizations isn't a good idea. Even if you're generally correct, there's always going to be a vocal minority of irate complainers hellbent on telling you you're wrong...

Let's be real here. The NCAA tournament and March Madness in general is pretty much a boys' club. The college women play at nearly the same time and suffer the same lack of respect given to the WNBA...

The NCAA Tournament is one of the seminal events in sports. It's March Madness. It's a week when office boundaries are crossed all in the name of mastering the maddening calculus of filling out the least worst tournament bracket...

Children aren't typically labeled athletes...and for good reason. For most kids, the level of competition is wildly uneven at best (and a chaotic nightmare at worst) until they start playing varsity sports...

It's simply unreasonable to ask a sports fan to put their emotions aside and be purely logical. That's not the nature of competition. It's not the nature of professional sports. And we all know that "fan" is short for "fanatic...

It seems like athletes are always feuding with someone these days. Their teammates. Their ex-girlfriends. Their current girlfriends. Team management and/or coaches. And sometimes even with celebrities...

More often than not, great athletes don't forge their careers in a vacuum. They not only depend on their teammates to carry them in those moments when they struggle, but they draw in the missing pieces to reach the next level...

It's been a few months since ESPN's Brent Musburger thrust Katherine Webb—girlfriend of University of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron—into the national spotlight during the BCS National Championship game in January 2013...